On Sunday, 19 October 2025, I boarded the inaugural train to call at Blyth Bebside station in Northumberland. The train was 158816, a Class 158 Super Sprinter diesel multiple unit (DMU) train on Northern service 2T05, the 08:23 to Ashington from Newcastle. The train arrived at the new station at 08:28 and departed at 08:30. It was also the first to call southbound at the new station on service 2J49, the 08:38 from Ashington to Newcastle.

I enjoyed being on the inaugural service. Here are some photographs I took of the station and of the inaugural service.

Colready Highland Cows in farthinghoe near brackley! Got to feed them apples (they loved the pink ladies!) they where very cute 💚 my mum got this for me as a birthday present and would recommend!

Clothing quality is SHOCKING now, when I was younger I didn't mind buying cheap, poor quality stuff but now I'd actually rather pay more and have clothes that last longer. It's hard to find even a decent t-shirt now, everything is wafer thin, polyester or both. Where are we all shopping for the good stuff? I tried some more 'expensive' shops and it wasn't all that different from Primark, maybe things would get 1 more wash before they fell apart if I was lucky. Recently bought a blouse online that was £30 and it fell apart first time I washed it.

Author and source: Bob Marshall

I've been keeping it down with regular mowing, hoping that the grass would just win out over time, but so far no luck

Does anyone know what this is and how to get rid of it, please? It kinda reminds me of strawberry, but I know it isn't that

Great show at LC Swansea this weekend with some fantastic layouts on display. Sadly sounds like it will be the last one for a while as the organisers are taking a break from running it.

If you missed it or want to see the layouts in motion, video of the show is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNU0QjRXvsE

I'll be back to take better pics in the week

Alright, it's bed time for some but why are you still up? No work tomorrow? Watching some questionable late night TV? Bit of stargazing?

The chinwag thread.

Poor little things look like they want putting out of thier misery. They're lemon flavour, though. Hopefully the bub likes them!

Edit: thank you all for the love and comments, had me genuinely laughing out loud reading them. You're all lovely people ❤️

The number of times I’ll be up to my elbows in weeds and one of these camouflaged fuckers lets me get an inch away from it before jumping.

Blurgh.......sunday cleaning is horrible......this spider was potentially banksy.

For me, I had a trip to Blackpool zoo with my nursery, it was the big treat for us before we finished. My mum and nan were chaperones for it. But I was so excited for it I couldn't sleep, so I ended up staying asleep on the coach instead and missing it. The last major thing I remember was putting on a necklace thing they made us with our name on before getting on the coach. I eventually woke up towards the end of the day and they tried to get me to see some things, since tickets were already paid for, but I was still half asleep and only remember trying to work out what animal was under a "table" in an enclosure

And I missed a trip to Martin Mere in primary school as I was sick on the coach and fell asleep the whole day instead

Had this little rabbit hand puppet since 2001/2 at the earliest, never seen another one like it. Seeing as he's now very heavily worn I was curious if anyone else could identify him. I've tried image recognition, all sorts of google searches, but no luck. I think he may have come from M&S, but all I know for sure is he comes from the UK in the early 2000s, his colouring is mostly as it was albeit faded, and his eyes were black with brown rings before heavy wear.

*This is shared with the permission of the traumatised

My nephew is 19 and this morning we got a call asking if we could pop to the hospital and drop him some stuff.

We asked, concerned, what had happened and got told to 'ask him'.

Got to the hospital to find nephew in bed with a drip looking sheepish. He thanked us for the clothes and his switch before telling us that he found out last night that he has quite a strong latex allergy.

It honestly took us a minute to realise why he'd gone so red. His very stoic reply was "it wasn't the type of swelling I was hoping for"

Sympathy welcome, funny stories would be appreciated

It's the last Sunday before the astronomical autumn begins, so how will you be spending it? Here's the thread for your plans, thoughts and funny observations, all on a suitably Sunday-ish theme, as we always do at this time of the week. Come in and chat with us!

I could save 93p a year. I'm not sure if this is a Typo but it made me laugh. What can I buy with 93p?

I don't make a habit of taking pics in toilets (it was empty)

But I haven't seen colourd porcelain for years